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I wonder if that was always the plan to have Medusa fish the NXT women's tag title out of the trash, because if not it's a hell of a rib to have the first Vince show be an "undo" on one of the most famous "things that ate into Vince's brain" moments.

I wonder if Roddy re-signed or if he's still playing out the string until he can join back up with Not Undisputed Era.

Yeah the way he was doing it before was just tempting fate to shatter both his ankles and/or his ass.

lol this Kiana James gimmick. I hope they keep adding degrees to her name until it's like a paragraph long.

Well there's one post Vince difference, they are actually going to fill the women's tag titles.

Jacey Jane is low key the best part of Toxic Attraction

Also it's pretty funny Grayson Waller's gimmick is pretty much what Logan Paul should be doing.

I wonder if he rubbed someone the wrong way since he went from getting to show up on RAW to mess with AJ to getting jobber entrances on NXT.

I think the deal with AEW potentially being hurt by this isn't because people think WWE is going to get magically better overnight, but because one of the main selling points to go there was "we won't dead end your career because the old man in charge doesn't get you". If WWE gets to the point where talented folks who aren't 6'5 and jacked can get a fair shot without being repackaged as Scrappy McPoopypants, then that might be something AEW has to deal with.

It certainly didn't age well, but that was the perfect music for 00s WWE at the time.

People joke about Hunter playing the long game and Double J is like "hold my beer".

No, but can you honestly say a committee would be worse than solely booking based on the whims of a horny 77 year old?

Holy fuck, either someone potatoed the hell out of Tez or blood is back baby!

I know they are in MSG tonight but the Street Profits should have more self respect than wearing Knicks uniform themed gear.

Also Rey being able to name drop Deano Machino in his promo when he works for AEW now is def something that probably wouldn't be allowed under Vince.

This actually has been pretty well booked other than the fact NO ONE WANTS TO CHEER LOGAN FUCKING PAUL, jfc.

MARYSE (respectfully)

I mean, beating up the Miz is the one thing that could turn him babyface but he's too douchey even for that to work.

Rey got time to express his gratitude to the fans and didn't get humiliated, so that was a noticeable difference.

lol Roman just ethered the fuck outta Theory

I hope Roman spears Theory into outer space at SummerSlam.

Kicking things off with the Big Dog, Hunter ACKNOWLEGES the Tribal Chief.

WWE's biggest problem was having one guy still trying to be in complete control of every aspect like it was still 1985 and he was running the regional territory he bought from his dad. It seems like Nick Khan/Steph will be running the business end and Hunter will be doing the creative, so that alone is less of a workload. Plus I'm going to go out on a limb and assume he's not going to be an obsessive weirdo who tears up the script before every show. I'm not going to say managing 5 hours of TV (plus a Premium Live Event every month) isn't a massive workload, but a lot of the stresses that existed in WWE were self inflicted.

Dave in particular seems hopeful WWE will do a better job at creating stars now that they won't be limited to Vince's extremely narrow vision of what a star is. WWE main roster creative has become so glacially stagnant literally anyone else would be doing a better job by default, but HHH really got exposed when he had to do long term booking instead of just 5-6 month callup cycles. Also there's the fact that all the positive buzz NXT ever got was from them being the alternative to main roster WWE where guys were actually allowed to have good matches and not be stuck with career ending gimmicks. When AEW came along, we got a real alternative that wasn't part of the extended WWE Universe and NXT started looking more like the corporate sock puppet it always was. Plus as NXT got more well received, Hunter started getting high on his own farts and booked every NXT main event to have to be a Mania style overdramatic experience with a million "shocked someone kicked out of a move" faces.